by George Rosa The latest version of the CUNY Hostos Student Online Learning Preparedness “Are You Ready?” course has been updated with new content as well as changes to self-assessment questions and feedback. The focus of the updates is to express to students the reality that anyone can learn...
by Eric Ritholz One of the most significant contributing factors to the future of Online Learning at Hostos over 2020 is that we have more feedback and examples of use than ever before to guide in both the development and refinement of training and support. Across the board there...
by Danny Wu Amidst this pandemic, with colleges and universities moving to remote, there has been much frustration voiced by students all over the world over the difficulties of remote learning. “Roughly 20% of students nationwide don’t have access to the technology they need for remote learning” (Hawkins and...
by David dos Santos The current challenges make replacing the interpersonal connections that were fostered through casual pre-class conversations, post class questions and other in-person interaction quite difficult. The CUNY-provided and CUNY-supported LMS, Blackboard, (insert a comma between these two words) provides a host of tools for Discussion Boards,...
